Good day monks. I am using WWW:Mechanize to download zip files from a web page. Download is initiated by clicking a form button. What I'm currently using is: 
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get($url);
if ($mech->success()) {
    $mech->form_number(1);
    my $response = $mech->click_button(name => 'begin');
    open(OUT,">save.zip") or die "Can't open outfile: $!\n";
        binmode OUT;
        print OUT $response->content();
        close OUT;
}

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But when the file is large or I have a lot of other things running on my machine, the $response can cause memory shortages. I'm wondering if there is a way to stream the response straight to a file, i.e. like you can do with the get method using 
$mech->get($url, ":content_file" => "filename.here");

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only in response to click_button

Thanks...Steve

In reply to WWW:Mechanize click_button stream to file? by cormanaz

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